ICELAND in a Nutshell

Well, so we are here in Iceland and we are not really poor, we are just in a little pickle. That’s all. And you Gordon Brown are really not making it better, so I say I am a proud Icelandic terrorist. The state of Iceland isn‘t all that bad it is just everybody else making it worse, all we hear here in Iceland in the news is: Kreppa...kreppa kreppa kreppa krepppa and guess what KREPPA!!“ (Kreppa means Recession)

Me, for example, I work in the smallest store in Vesturbærinn, it’s called Melabúðin and you would think that it would be doing horribly but no, it’s the big stores like Bónus and Krónan, they have shortage of food and stuff. People shop just like they did before, I think they’re even spending more money at a time and buying more fast food than they did before. Even my friend that doesn‘t have a job just bought jeans for 17,000 Icelandic krónur. So I really, really, really don‘t think we are in that of a bad situation. We have enough food, we have definitely enough water.

The thing is that we have to NOT send so many products to foreign countries. We are shipping out unworked fish to Britain which we shouldn‘t do. That fish could give people here in Iceland many jobs and we could then make more money for Iceland and the Icelandic nation.

The only Icelandic people I can‘t stand right now is the Icelandic government; they need to get off their asses and finally do something for Iceland. I think even our president is guilty here, the government spent most of our money going to Beijing, to see our boys play handball, which we played well. But they didn‘t have to go like 4 times, once is enough. I have nothing against getting some of that money in my pocket, I need it, they don‘t. They work maybe 2-6 hours a day and they are all so tired. When I was 16 I worked 26 hours of 48hours all on my feet and I did not complain. They are so upset that they have to sell off of their car or get a smaller house. They need to stop complaining and look and the “little” people. We are not doing ok, we manage, but some of us have lost up to 10 millions. I‘m just so pissed off at the government, they just act like jerks, and the politics are not better.

The “loan” from Russia will be the very fall of us, I think. If we take the loan we are basically taking the loan from the Russian mafia not the Russian government, it’s true, sorry to say, but it is. We will be then much more open for crimes and more drugs will come into the country (like it isn‘t enough) and younger and younger children will start to smuggle and use and sell.

So what we need the money, just print more and more. The government wouldn’t die from it. Well maybe they are getting so soft in their older years. They work for 8 months at a time and get a LOT of money for it, I know a person that has worked 20 years in bank and it’s not that long ago that she just got 200.000 Icelandic króna and that is not enough for somebody that has worked for 20 at the same place. It’s just ridiculous.

So I say to the Icelandic government do something for once and then you can go and chill out in you 60million kr. house.

From you own proud Icelandic terrorist

Arna Björg.